However, Lemmy.ml instance is hosted by the official Lemmy developers (Dessalines and nutomic) and considered one of their biggest instances.
It's also a tankie instance that has dished out bans for speaking negatively about China's government and genocide of the uyghurs.
We don't need to legitimize lemmy.ml and beg for federation just because it's run by the creators of Lemmy. They clearly don't want us, I don't really believe the rest of the fediverse really needs them. I recommend instead directing new users to either kbin or one of the countless well-run Lemmy instances and avoiding lemmy.ml communities in general, so that pointless defederation on their part only hurts them.